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Please donate today! Your support is vital to keep our concerts free for all audiences. The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra has a long history of performing first-class concerts without charging admission. We can do this only with the help of generous contributions from the many individuals, corporations and foundations that underwrite our expenses. Your tax-deductible donation helps cover the costs of presenting these exciting performances and allows us to keep the doors wide open to all listeners. Make a secure on-line contribution at www.msomn.org or mail this form to: Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra P.O. Box 581213 Minneapolis, MN 55458-1213 Phone: (612) 567-6724 or (612) 5ms-orch Make checks payable to Metropolitan Symphony Orchestral Association. The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra is a not-for-profit tax-exempt organization. Increase your contribution by using your employer matching gift program. 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DATE SECURITY CODE AMOUNT (VISA/MC code = 3 digits on card back, AMEX code = 4 digits on card front) Make automatic recurring donations at www.msomn.org Join us for our 32nd Season! This season, join the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in saluting the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiere and the 200th birthday of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. We welcome back the magnificent Minnesota Chorale in a collaboration of Mahler’s spectacular Resurrection Symphony, honor Minneapolis composer Dominick Argento, and salute the memory of jazz great Dave Brubeck. MSO presents two very different pieces inspired by mountains, Mysterious Mountain and Night on Bald Mountain. Monumental works by two of the world’s greatest symphonists, Ludwig van Beethoven (Eroica) and Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony #5) anchor programs that also include works from the world of opera. This promises to be our best season ever! The mission of the MSO is to perform outstanding symphony concerts for diverse audiences throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area. www.msomn.org Concerts are free, though donations are requested. Programs subject to change. Acknowledgments: Karen Anderson, King Elder, Jon Lewis, Kimleng Nhean, Tim Rummelhoff, William Schrickel Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra P.O. Box 581213 Minneapolis, MN 55458-1213 (612) 567-6724 Return service requested This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. These concerts are supported, in part, by Target. PLEASE POST 2013-2014, THE 32ND SEASON OF THE WILLIAM SCHRICKEL, MUSIC DIRECTOR Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID TWIN CITIES, MN Permit No. 4577 2M The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra William Schrickel, Music Director 2013-2014 Season Rite of Spring Sunday, October 13 at 4pm Roseville Lutheran Church, 1215 Roselawn Avenue West, Roseville, MN 55113 William Schrickel, conductor Alan Hovhaness – Mysterious Mountain (Symphony #2), op. 132 Igor Stravinsky – Fireworks, op. 3 Igor Stravinsky – Rite of Spring The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Schrickel celebrate the opening of the MSO’s 32nd season with Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Although the first performance 100 years ago famously caused a riot, the Rite is now universally acknowledged as one of the 20th century’s most influential orchestral works. Stravinsky’s Fireworks is the piece that first caught the ear of Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet impresario who later commissioned Rite of Spring. The program opens with Mysterious Mountain, Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness’s hypnotically beautiful paean to the elemental spiritual forces present at the highest elevations of the world’s mountain ranges. Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony Sunday, November 24 at 4pm Linda Tutas Haugen Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404 William Schrickel, conductor Minnesota Chorale, Kathy Saltzman Romey, Artistic Director Gustav Mahler – Symphony #2 in C minor (Resurrection) After leading the first performance of his Symphony #2, Gustav Mahler remarked, “One is battered to the ground, and then raised on angels’ wings to the ultimate heights.” Opening with a dramatic large-scale funeral march, the Resurrection Symphony explores the great existential questions of life, death and the hereafter, culminating in a triumphant choral setting of Friedrich Klopstock’s Resurrection Ode. William Schrickel and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra are joined by the magnificent singers of the Minnesota Chorale for this performance of one of the world’s greatest choral/orchestral masterpieces. Keith Bear Operas, Ghosts and an Old Turtle: Special 1-Hour Family-Friendly Concerts Sunday, February 2 at 3pm Johnson Senior High School, 1349 Arcade Street, St. Paul, MN 55106 Sunday, February 9 at 3pm St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 1310 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343 Brubeck, Argento and Shostakovich William Schrickel, conductor Keith Bear, Native American flute Linda Tutas Haugen, composer and narrator Sunday, March 23 at 4pm Giuseppe Verdi – Overture to The Force of Destiny Engelbert Humperdinck – Overture to Hansel and Gretel Linda Tutas Haugen – The Fable of Old Turtle Keith Bear, Native American flute; Linda Haugen, narrator Modest Mussorgsky/Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Night on Bald Mountain Listeners of all ages will enjoy these 1-hour concerts! Giuseppe Verdi was born 200 years ago, and the overture to The Force of Destiny incorporates all the drama and lyricism of his operatic masterpiece. The overture to Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera, Hansel and Gretel, introduces the beautiful melody known all around the world as the composer’s “Children’s Prayer.” Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain is a musical picture of witches and spirits cavorting at midnight on St. John’s Eve, the Slavic pagan holiday celebrated on the summer solstice. The centerpiece of the program, showcasing Native American flutist Keith Bear, features composer and MSO violinist Linda Tutas Haugen narrating The Fable of Old Turtle, her setting of Douglas Wood’s 1992 children’s story about animals, humans, tolerance and the stewardship of the earth. Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 900 Stillwater Road, Mahtomedi, MN 55115 William Schrickel, conductor Dave Brubeck – Regret for String Orchestra Dominick Argento – Valentino Dances Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47 William Schrickel and the strings of the MSO open the concert with Dave Brubeck’s hauntingly beautiful Regret, performed in memory of the legendary jazz pianist and composer who died December 5, 2012, one day short of his 92nd birthday. Valentino Dances is Dominick Argento’s joyful and witty homage to the life and times of Rudolph Valentino, sparkling with the sensuous sound of solo accordion and the sexy rhythms of the tango. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, powerful, angry, full of irony and pathos, concludes with a finale that poses many questions and yields fewer answers. Is it triumphant, or is there a darker meaning to the final pages? Hear it live, and form your own conclusion. Beethoven’s Eroica Sunday, May 18 at 4pm Dragseth Auditorium, South View Middle School 4725 South View Lane, Edina, MN 55424 William Schrickel, conductor Student musicians from South View Middle School, Matt Pearson, Director Marta Troicki Carl Maria von Weber – Overture to Oberon Francisco Mignone – Concertino for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra Marta Troicki, bassoon Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 (Eroica) The MSO opens the final concert of the season with Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon Overture, a dazzling showpiece that perfectly captures the magical essence of the opera’s fairy kingdom setting. MSO bassoonist Marta Troicki takes center stage to perform the charming Concertino by Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone. The MSO brings down the curtain on their 32nd season with Beethoven’s monumental Eroica Symphony, the work that kicked open the door to the Romantic period, shattering all previous ideas about what a symphony should be. Today, more than two hundred years after it was written, the Eroica continues to sound fresh and powerful and to inspire performers and audiences alike. www.msomn.org